The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-02
MIR. BRADLEY,s COLOR LINE.
How the Permanent Colored Residents
AEbury Park Feel About 1t.

How the Permanent Colored Residents of
AEbury Park Feel About 1t.
New York Sun
The colored people of Asbury Park are still
nursing their wrath. After holding their indig
nation meeting on Monday night last it was sup
posed by many that they would organize in a
body. visit the beach, and make things lively,
but no such thing happened. 1t is said in behalf
of the colored people shat the white people, or a
large portion of them 10 not understand them,
and that whenever they assemble 30 protest
against wrong, false alarm is sent out that q
negro riot Is at hand.
The permanent negro residents of Asbury
Park number nearly thousand, and the prop
erty owned by them is valued at about $780,.
600. About 20 per cent of the total number of
negro residents are voters and 80 per cent.
tax payers. The property of individuals ranges
in value from $500 to $lO, 600. The Rev. John
Cornish, founder Of the A. NJ. +. Church, lives
on Railroad avenue He owns property to the
amount of 80 000 He one of the first resi-
dents of the Park. He told the writer that the
handsome cottages in his neighborhood. erected
on acres of now valuable ground, were built by
him. He and MIR James A. Bradley, at the
foundation of the Park held the greatest portion
of the land, and the two were fast friends until
this color question arose. Up to that time Mr.
Bradley treated him a gentleman and did not
appear to notice his ebony complexion. They
both bought large tracts of land, improved them
and sold them.
II mad no idea" he said. "that Mr. Bradley
would issue proclamation prohibiting me and
my race from enjoying the wholesome
breeze Had it occurred to me then would
certainly have bought slice of that beach when
the Park founded As it is, Mr.. Bradley
owns the whole beach. 1 cannot understand
him. He knows very well that the
colored people here who have property and
families respectable. and that they
tribute as largely to the wealth of Asbury Park
as the whites in similar circumstances, to whom
he has objections. He knows, too, that we,
who helped to make Asbury Park what it is,
have discretion enough not to offend strangers
who come here and spend their money for priv
leges of short duration, and who we know,
averse to mingling with people of rural hab-
while we, as coequal hosts of Asbury Park,
by virtue of our investments, are willing to con-
cede to visitors the short-lived precedence
tyranny of ostracsm. There are vagabonds
among nv well as among other races,
and no one despises vagabond more than do.
be he black white. Indeed the respectable
colored people of this park would be among the
first to protect respectable white person from
the intrusion of black vagabond There are
as many white vagabonds In this place,
/ think. there are black vagabonds.
but Mr.. Bradley does not aim his
mighty gun at them the blackbirds are what
he is after, and the honest, hard working col
ored people made to suffer while the white
vagabonds are untrammeed. Mr.. Bradley is
Christian gentleman, and l am sure his con-
science will not permit him to continue his
baneful course"
The writer visited the beach Monday
morning. and found stationed at the entrance Of
the main pavilion ex- postmaster L. q. Snedeker.
who armed with club. He is employed
by Mr.. Bradley to prevent persons of color from
visiting the beach number of apparently
well-to-do and few ordinary looking white per-
were sitting in the main pavilion, which
extends into the sea, while the beach for about
a half mile and the baths were literally
alive with small white children. who appeared
to be inmates of the orphan asylum.
A largo tract OF land has been purchased for
the erection of a summer branch of the Brooklyn
Colored Orphan Asylum. but the officers of the
asylum have suspended operations since Mr..
Bradley issued his proclamation. because they
say there would be nothing gained for the poor
orphans by sending them from the scorching sun
of Brooklyn. TO be roasted in the interior of As
bury Park It is said that syndicate Of negro